The children of Ge Island always have to walk on their own due to the inconvenience of transportation. The lack of entertainment facilities on the island makes swimming their best entertainment in summer.
Therefore, their youthful bodies are often full of vitality. Even girls have round and slender arms that are as strong as those of lazy city boys.
Moyou wanted to use this force to get rid of Nanyouxi's palm. Feeling this force, Nanyouxi thought that the girl he could lift up before had grown up now, and he could no longer control her with one hand.
After the girl broke free, Minami Yuki grabbed the back of her neck.
The hand covering her neck was hot and strong, and Mayu lost the strength to resist. Minami Yuxi pulled her to an empty room next to the living room and closed the door.
The sunlight coming in through the window made the girl's face crystal clear. Her ears, hidden in her wet black hair, looked like rubies, glowing a bright red.
Nan Youxi's direct gaze made Moyu feel a little guilty, so she turned her face away.
"The start date of the island school is different?" Nan Youxi repeated the girl's lie.
Moyu lowered her head, her hair fell down, and most of her crimson earlobes were revealed in Nan Youxi's eyes.
She murmured quietly, "It is indeed different. It will be a few days later."
"Usually the school starts at the end of last month. How many days late are you?"
"I didn't say school wasn't open, I just said the start date was different."
"Didn't I ask you if school had started? You said no."
"Yuuki asked last Saturday. It was a holiday, so of course school wasn't in session."
"… It turns out that you are an honest child." Nan Youxi said sarcastically.
"Of course!" Moyu raised her white neck with a proud look.
Nan Youxi tapped her head and asked, "What about not having friends?"
The girl said confidently: "Not on this island."
"So, you have good friends on other islands, right?" Nan Youxi rubbed his forehead, "What about the problem of not being able to fit in with the class?"
“It was like this for the first one or two days.”
"I've only been transferred to this school for a day or two, and I can't fit in no matter who I am!"
Nan Youxi wanted to pinch Mayu's cheeks, watch the girl's white skin deform between his fingers, and listen to her whimpering voice begging for mercy. He wanted to teach the lying girl a lesson. He thought that the girl's previous words were at most 30% false, but he didn't expect that they were all lies, and at most 10% true.
Seeing Nan Youxi's raised hand, Moyu closed her eyes. She had already thought about what kind of pitiful expression she would make and what kind of whimper she would make when her face was pinched.
However, the palm ended up just hitting her head without any pain.
A sense of loss surfaced in her heart. She thought that apart from the hug she took when they first met, Nan Youxi's closeness to her these days was limited to touching her hair. Ten years ago, he would pinch her face and hold her on his lap.
She thought again of the time when her fiancé was in the kitchen and Nan Youxi wanted to pinch her face, but just as she raised her hand, she put it down again.
She felt that there was an invisible gap between her and Nan Youxi. Although there was no gap in their relationship, this gap appeared naturally.
"Hurry up and pack your things and go to school." Nan Youxi said.
His words made Mayu happy. The girl knew that the man said this to expose the matter.
"No." Moyu shook her head, "Before I wanted to go to school because I wanted to escape from Yuuki. Now that it's over, I don't want to go to school!"
"The teacher has come all the way to your house."
“Being deceived by bad students is a must-learn for good teachers.”
"Being a bad student is not a compulsory course in Girls' Generation."
"Ah, my head hurts. I have to take a leave and rest at home."
The girl covered her head with her hands and frowned. Her slender waist was bent, and she tried hard to pretend that she was unwell.
"Why don't you want to go to school?" Nan Youxi couldn't understand, "Are you unhappy at school?"
"No, I just don't want to go to school. I want to rest at home." Moyu said in a firm tone.
Nan Youxi pondered for a moment and guessed the girl's psychology, but he was not sure, or rather, he did not quite believe himself.
"Did you have a conflict with your classmates?" He listed the possibilities.
"No."
"Don't want to see a certain teacher?"
"No."
"Your best friend stole the boy you liked?"
"There is no such boy!"
Nan Yuxi's last words made Moyu, who had been quietly resisting, a little angry. She stared at Nan Yuxi with her cheeks puffed up.
Without waiting for Nan Youxi to respond, she lowered her head again. The sunlight made her bangs in front of her forehead shine golden and sway slightly. The faint smell of wood emitted by the high temperature floated in front of their noses.
She said: "Anyway, I don't want to go to school now. I will tell my parents and just take a break from school for a while."
"If you take a leave of absence, it will be very awkward to meet classmates who are one year younger than you next year. Your sister Reina knows this very well."
"Give me Sister Lingnai's phone number. I will discuss the experience with Sister Lingnai tonight."
"Don't you want to be like Yuko, become a top student at a prestigious university, and make a lot of money in the future?"
"The family debt has been paid off. I don't need to work hard anymore."
"This is nothing like how I remember you."
These words created a hurricane, rolling up huge waves in Mayu's heart. She raised her head, and the waves of the sea of her heart hit the wall of her heart, creating cracks and making her feel pain. The salty sea water flowed over the cracks, corroding the gaps and making her feel sad.
She believed that the image of Mayu engraved in Nan Youxi's heart now was the image of her ten years ago. She, the seventeen-year-old herself, was continuing her existence at the age of seven.
Now, when Minami Yuki says that she is not like the person she remembers, she is denying continuation itself, denying the emotions she has buried since she was seven years old.
She wanted to explain, but she couldn't speak clearly.
She thought back to the previous problem. Nan Youxi was not as close to her now as she was ten years ago. It was not because there was a problem with their relationship, but because there was a problem with her. She had grown up and was no longer that little girl. Therefore, in Nan Youxi's eyes, some closeness became an overstep and was forbidden.
If she made her words very clear, she was afraid that Nan Youxi would characterize her thoughts as transgressions and cut off all contact with her.
During the years since she was separated from Minami Youxi, she has thought many times about why she and her brother had to face separation.
This thought soon had an answer, because as a little girl from Nan Youxi's friend's family, she was destined to leave because of her friend's departure.
If you want to eliminate the transgression, you have to change their relationship so that she is no longer the little girl of a friend's family.
She stared at Nan Youxi for a while without saying a word, then lowered her head.
A hand pressed on top of her head.
Mayu raised her head sharply.
"Even if Moyu goes to school, I won't take the opportunity to leave." Nan Youxi looked into the girl's eyes and said slowly.
"ensure?"
"I promise."
"No such idea at all?"
"Well, not at all now."
Nan Youxi added specific conditions. This is what he was planning to do when he asked the girl why she hadn't gone to school yet last week.
This idea has now been dispelled.
Looking at the girl's expression, he was sure that Mayu refused to go to school and stayed by his side watching over him because she was afraid that he would leave.
“Hook!”
"A liar swallows a thousand needles."
Nan Youxi stretched out her little finger and hooked it with the girl's little finger, and a smile appeared on the girl's face.
"If I'm leaving, I'll tell Mayu in advance," Minami Yuki added.
"This sentence is superfluous!"
The girl's face puffed up again. She reached out her hand, pinched Nan Youxi's face, and ran away quickly.
Nan Youxi touched the cheek that was pinched by the girl and shook his head. He thought, although this girl is growing physically, she has not made any progress spiritually.
[It turns out that Moyu's homeroom teacher has arrived. You then realized that Moyu had already started school and the girl had fooled you. In order to let her go to school with peace of mind, you made a contract with her that you would not leave suddenly.]
[The girl's behavior bothers you a little. You don't understand why she clings to you so much. In order to prevent you from leaving, she does two incredible things in succession.]
[You think, maybe it's because you paid too much attention to the girl when she was young. People often have a crush on the gentle and beautiful older sisters and brothers who took care of them when they were young, and you are no exception.]
The simulation was terminated and Nan Youxi pinched the bridge of her nose.
The "you are the same" in the simulated text does not refer to the childhood of his predecessor, but to his own childhood.
He couldn't help but think back to his past life. When he was a child, his father was busy at work and his mother was busy playing mahjong, so they often left him at the neighbor's house. The big sister next door who would let him play with a keypad phone and give him snacks was his white moonlight.
Unfortunately, the neighbor girl’s life came to a sad end because she couldn’t bear the pressure of senior year in high school.
After he entered university, he would occasionally think of the other person. One of his girlfriends in the same department was very much like the sister next door in his memory. However, the gentleness of that girlfriend was a disguised consideration through the psychology theories she learned. It was a fake, not the real thing. After seeing through this, he quickly broke up with her.
Nan Youxi has never been a person who likes to reminisce about the past. He thinks about his own affairs in order to define Moyu's behavior.
He thought that even he could not help but miss the sister next door who took care of him. Mayu would definitely be envious of herself for taking care of her, who was handsome, rich, talented and humorous.
Just like when we were kids, we yearned for fried chicken, ice cream, and a certain brand of mobile phone. Even when we grow up, we still yearn for them and want to be close to them.
The good memories of the past will coat that object with a layer of sugar coating, but when the sugar coating melts, the original taste of that thing will surface and everything will return to normal.
The fried chicken is too greasy, the ice cream is too cold, and a certain brand of mobile phone is just so-so.
After graduating from college and studying for a master's degree, Nan Youxi dated the younger sister of her neighbor for a while. The two sisters were very similar in every way, but they eventually broke up because Nan Youxi found that their personalities were not compatible.
He thought that Mayu's emotions would definitely return to normal, and after they had been together for a while, the girl would know that they were not suitable... right
Looking at the name of the simulator, Nan Youxi lost confidence.
He continued to look at the simulation interface.
[You think, the past is an illusory memory, and memory is an even more illusory reality. The experience at this moment is the most real thing.]
[Look at yourself. You are old, you don't know how to do housework, you don't come home often, you are very cold to girls who like you, and you have a few female confidants outside. With this kind of you, your attraction to serious girls should be very limited. ]
[Now that you have confidence, you should sweep away the beautiful memories in Mayu's heart. ]
[You believe that Moyou's dependence on you and her reluctance to part with you are out of admiration and a vague affection from childhood, which is a prerequisite for love.]
[Is it really the truth?]
[Is Moyu's feeling towards you really something that is easy to define? ]
Looking at the simulated text, Nan Youxi cursed in her heart. This crappy simulator is always like this, with one or two spoilers at the key parts, and it doesn't spoil them completely, making people feel awkward.
However, with this spoiler, he felt relieved. He knew himself, if Mayu had that kind of idea, the girl would definitely fail, and there might be more residents in the Asano family's house. Now, this future should be ruled out.
At the same time, he was also a little lost.
Even if it was him, he would be very happy to be liked by an outstanding girl. Of course he would feel a little frustrated after realizing that his happiness was in vain!
Rubbing his face, he continued to read the simulated text.
He wanted to see what Mayu was thinking.
[The girl is also unclear about her own feelings. ]
[I followed my homeroom teacher to the big island where the city is located. It was already noon. She sent you a selfie at the school gate.]
[In the photo, she is wearing a light blue sailor suit, with a stone tablet with the school name and a small bamboo forest covered in sunlight behind her. The brilliance of the golden inscription and the dazzling sunlight are not as bright as the girl's smiling face. You save this photo and look at it carefully. You are not looking at the girl. If you want, Yuko and Mitsuki can wear them for you. What you are looking at is the shining aura in the photo.]
[You think of the phrase "youth is invincible", a word that is overused and is the best way to describe your feelings at the moment. You think you can draw a new picture.]
[Your painting supplies are all on Sakuragaoka Island. You thought you would only stay on Uta Island for a few days, so you didn't bring them with you.]
[Send a message and ask the people at Sakura Hill to deliver your painting supplies.]
[After a while, several more selfies came in, in the cafeteria, in the classroom, on the playground... ]
[You hesitated for a moment, turned on the camera function of your phone, walked into the yard, and took a picture of yourself and the Asagiri family's house. ]
[After sending this photo to Mayu, you received a handshake emoticon. ]
[You are speechless. Just as you guessed, Moyou's selfie is not for sharing, but for urging. The girl is saying that she has fulfilled her vows well, and is secretly urging you to send proof of your compliance with the vows.]
[In the afternoon, the painting supplies arrived, along with several painters from Sakuragaoka.]
[You couldn't refuse, so you went with them to Utajima's painting studio to drink tea and admire the paintings. They gave you the key to the studio and let you use it as you like.]
[You asked Mayu what time she got out of school and how long it would take to get home from school. You planned to return before the girl got home.]
[You didn't expect that Moyu came back early. ]
[At dusk, you climbed up the hill and saw a girl hugging her knees, sitting alone on the porch.]
(End of this chapter)